The document discusses a simulation game about beaver populations and trade between Native American tribes and colonists. It also summarizes the main causes of decline in Native American populations, including war, infectious disease epidemics such as smallpox, and subsequent conflicts with colonists over land.
Breakout Session on Colonists, Native Americans, Land, Beaver, War, and Disease
1. Breakout Session 1: Colonists and Native Americans Land and beaver for war and disease: A fair trade? Jenny Wahl Carleton College Economics Department
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7. Fur Prices and Estimated Beaver Prices (Ft. Albany): 1700-1763
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10. Infectious Disease Epidemics Other Than Smallpox, 1531-1778 Possibly in Plains, Hudson Bay, and Texas tribes Measles 1776-1778 Louisiana peoples Bubonic Plague 1767 All Native Americans in North America Influenza 1761 Possibly southeastern peoples Measles 1759-1760 Possible component with smallpox epidemic among northeastern tribes Influenza 1746 Lower California tribes; possibly Choctaw Typhus 1742 Mexico City to California tribes; Florida peoples; possibly New England groups Measles 1727-1728 "Marseilles Fever"among Naskapi Typhus 1720 New England tribes to Illinois Measles 1713-1715 Possible component with smallpox epidemic among Gulf Coast and southeastern peoples Influenza 1696-1698 Illinois peoples; Oneidas Measles 1692-1693 Iroquois and New England tribes Influenza 1675 New England and Canadian tribes Diphtheria 1659 Canadian tribes; Florida peoples to Mexico City-with diphtheria Measles 1658-1659 New England tribes Influenza 1647 New England, New France, and Great Lakes groups; Measles 1633-1634 New Spain to Florida and New England Bubonic Plague 1612-1619 Sinaloa Typhus 1611 Sinaloa Measles 1602 Central New Spain to Sinaloa Diphtheria 1601-1602 Sinaloa Measles 1592-1593 Tidewater Carolina tribes ; extending to southern New England tribes Typhus 1586 New Spain Bubonic Plague 1576 Southeastern peoples Influenza 1559 New Spain to Pueblos and perhaps beyond Bubonic Plague 1545-1548 New Spain, probably beyond the colony, northward including Pueblos and beyond Measles 1531-1533 People affected Epidemic Period
11. Smallpox Epidemics, 1520-1783 From Central Mexico across all of North America 1779-1783 From Central Mexico through Texas and the Southeast to Northwest Coast 1762-1766 From Canada, New England, and Great Lakes to Virginia, Carolinas, and Texas 1755-1760 Coahuiltecan tribes of Texas and northeastern New Spain 1706 Northeastern tribes to Illinois 1701-1703 Southeastern and Gulf Coast chiefdoms 1696-1699 Northeastern tribes on British and French frontiers; Texas tribes 1687-1691 French and British northeastern North America 1677-1679 Coahuiltecan tribes of Texas; northeastern New Spain 1674-1675 French and British northeastern North America 1669-1670 Florida chiefdoms to Virginia tribes 1665-1667 Iroquois, Delaware; Canadian tribes; Central Mexico 1662-1663 Florida chiefdoms 1655 Northeastern tribes; Montagnais-Neskapi to Quebec, Huron, and Iroquois; Florida 1649-1650 New Spain to Nuevo Leon tribes and western Sierra Madre to Florida 1646-1648 French and British northeastern North America 1639 Sinaloa and northward 1602 Central Mexico to Sinaloa; southern New England; eastern Great Lakes 1592-1593 From Chile across present-day United States 1520-1524 People or place affected Period